"When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook."
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"The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry."
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"Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel"
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"For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep."
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
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"On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly."
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"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time"
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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
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"A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place."
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"And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
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"In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo."
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"Culture is one thing and varnish is another."
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
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"Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture."
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"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"
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"I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that."
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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
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"I think there are just as many assholes meeting the old-fashioned way as there are meeting in the new hookup culture."
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"I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture."
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"We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets."
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